Sunday, September 20, 2015

"From their name pulled from Hollywood movies to their cassette cover art,
Viet Cong are men who want to be cool. They’ve shown they don’t want
dialogue, they don’t want to engage compassionately with community. If
this is indie - if this is punk - it could be the indie and punk white
Canada deserves: hollow, deaf, and self-motivated. Whether or not the
boys’ management decide to flip the name at Polaris, for me their legacy
will still represent a group of careless white men who were given a
platform by a careless white industry - and music community - as will
their Polaris shortlisting."